Escapees

Responsibility for this matter has been delegated to the Director General of the Prison Service, who has been asked to arrange for a reply to be given.

Letter from D. Lewis to Ms Joan Ruddock, dated 14 June 1994:The Home Secretary has asked me to reply to your recent Question about the number of escapes from Group 4 escorts in the East Midlands and Humberside.

Notified reductions in numbers of Section 11 posts, with effect from

Grant recipient

Grant cost £ 1993–94

Allocation £ 1994–95

April 1994

September 1994

Avon

818,931

615,251

—

—

Barking and Dagenham

323,379

230,860

—

—

Barnet

863,312

748,243

—

—

Bedfordshire

3,151,026

2,361,022

—

—

Berkshire

1,423,166

1,053,875

214.00

—

Bexley

161,586

100,138

—

—

Birmingham

5,483,109

4,046,501

—

—

Blackburn

68,107

49,539

—

—

Bolton

1,171,230

880,595

21.00

—

Bradford

5,611,597

4,204,150

—

—

Brent

2,402,307

1,742,385

1—

1—

Buckinghamshire

1,490,140

1,180,697

—

—

Burnley

25,772

18,774

—

—

Bury

486,477

354,547

1—

1—

Calderdale

1,165,370

853,361

—

9.00

Cambridgeshire

1,335,768

976,563

—

—

Camden

1,563,056

1,111,346

—

—

Cardiff

10,727

7,888

—

—

Cheshire

99,664

73,862

—

—

Cleveland

653,286

479,638

—

—

Coventry

2,785,023

2,108,375

—

276.76

Croydon

1,327,959

949,775

—

—

Derbyshire

1,432,669

1,046,415

—

22.50

Devon

15,816

11,949

1—

1—

Doncaster

137,275

100,338

—

—

Dudley

1,121,136

877,198

—

—

Durham

171,737

119,090

—

—

Ealing

3,418,619

2,632,879

—

1—

496WBetween the commencement of the service on 5 April 1993 and 31 May 1994, there have been a total of 31 escapes, excluding 19 prisoners immediately recaptured. The Group 4 court escort and custody service covers work previously undertaken by both the prison and police services within the contract area. In the first year of operation Group 4 carried out a total of 100,656 prisoner movements and the escape statistics should be seen in that context.